Concomitant gastric carcinoid and gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a case report.
A gastric carcinoid tumor concomitant with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is rarely encountered in clinical practice. We report a 65-year-old female who had a 0.8 cm gastric carcinoid tumor on the posterior wall of the upper gastric corpus detected during an esophagogastroduodenoscopy at a routine physical examination, and a concomitant 1.1 cm GIST on the anterior wall of the upper gastric corpus incidentally found during surgery of the gastric carcinoid tumor. Normal serum gastrin level and histological findings suggested that she had a type III gastric carcinoid tumor and a GIST which were categorized a very low risk of malignancy, based on their small size and lack of mitosis. Both tumors were treated successfully by surgical excision. The patient had an uneventful recovery. Neither recurrence nor metastasis was found after a 28-mo follow-up.
Lin
Ying-Lung
YL
Department of Anatomic Pathology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi 622, Taiwan, China.
Wei
Chang-Kou
CK
Chiang
Jui-Kun
JK
Chou
An-Liang
AL
Chen
Chih-Wei
CW
Tseng
Chih-En
CE
D000368:Aged; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome